a claim that there are 43 pounds seized from canada but the article suggests it is less than that. is there work we should and need to do together on fentanyl? of course. chuck passed a bill in the senate two weeks ago. this is not about fentanyl but about tariffs and national sales tax. trump's economic adviser peter navarro said the total will be $6 trillion of taxes paid by american consumers. i told the story of this baker that i have in virginia, called mom's apple pie. this is a good thing for a speech in the senate, mom's apple pie bakery. three locations. i was with her recently and she

said these canadian tariffs. april, you have these bakeries. aluminum pie tins. you increase the price -- >> even worse if you have a can of beer with your apple pie. >> there you go. nobody has to buy my pie but it's to celebrate a birthday. i might have to lay people off and been through it in the first term. my largest business in virginia is the shipyard -- ♪

♪♪ [cheers and applause] president trump: thank you very much. nice crowd. good-looking group of people. we have very good news today and a lot of good things are happening. please sit down. my fellow americans, this is libberration day, waiting for a long time. [applause] april 2, 2025 will forever be

remembered as the day american industry was reborn, the day america's destiny was reclaimed and the day that we began to make america wealthy again. going to make it good and wealthy. for decades our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and planneddered by nations near and far and friend and foe. american steel workers, auto workers farmers and skilled craftsmen, they suffered gravely and watched in anguish as foreign leaders stolen our jobs and cheaters ransacked our factories and schav and engineers -- we had an american dream you don't hear so much about. you did four years ago. for many years and decades you didn't hear too much about.

our country and taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years but it's not going to happen anymore. it's not going to happen. [applause] and in a few moments i will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world, reciprocal that means they do it to us and we do it to them. can't get any simpler than that. this is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in american history. it's our declaration of economic independence. for years hardworking american citizens were forced to sit on the sidelines as other nations got rich and powerful, much of it at our expense. but now it's our turn to prosper and in so doing, trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce

our taxes and pay down our national debt and it will happen quickly. with today's action we are finally going to make america great again, greater than ever before. [applause] jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already. we will supercharge our domestic industrial base. we will pry open foreign markets and break down trade barriers and more production at home will mean more competition and lower prices for consumers. this will be indeed the golden age of america. it's coming back and we are going to come back very strongly. [applause] we are pleased to be joined on this momentous occasion by j.d. vance. thank you.

[applause] where are you, j.d.? that wasn't too hard to find. he likes to take a low key attitude. he is gaining a lot of confidence. and nearly my entire cabinet is here as well as speaker mike johnson. he has done an amazing job. [applause] and with the great success we had last night in florida, we have majority of 7 and 7 is like a lot rather than one. you have done a fantastic job and many members of the house and senators are here. thank you for being with us. for decades the united states slashed trade barriers on other countries while they placed massive tariffs on our products and created nonmonetary barriers to decimate our industries and

many many cases they were worst. they manipulated their currency and subsidized their exports and stole our intellectual property and imposed back taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards and created pollution havens, they were always fighty but they came to us and said we should pay for it. it is detailed in a big report by the u.s. trade representative on foreign trade barriers and hold it up for you, it's available -- and you don't have to pay too much. it's a lot of work, a lot of work for something, because it's a special book. it's frankly very upsetting when you see what people have been doing to us for 30 years. this happened with no response from the united states of

america. none whatsoever. but those days are over. let me offer just a few examples of the vicious attacks workers have faced for so many years. the united states charges other countries only a 2.4 tariff on motorcycles. meanwhile, thailand and others are charging much higher prices, 60%. india charges 70% and vietnam charges 75%. and others are higher than that. likewise, the united states has for decades charged a 2.5 tariff% on foreign-made automobiles. the european union charges us more than 10% tariffs and they have 20% that's much higher. india charges 70% and perhaps worst of all are the nonmonetary

imposed by china, south korea as a result of these colossal trade barriers. 81% -- [audio skipped] and i say that friend and foe, and in many cases the friend is worst than the foe in terms of trade. imbalancees have destroyed our industrial base and put our national security at risk. i don't blame these other countries at all. i blame former presidents and other leaders. they let it happen and let it happen to an extent that nobody can believe. effective at midnight, we will impose 25% on all foreign-made

automobiles. [cheers and applause] thank you. brian, i would like to have you come up for a second. he has been a fan of ours and he understands this business a lot better than the economists. brian, say a few words, won't you. >> thank you, mr. president. i grew up just north of detroit michigan and known as the home of the reagan democrats. my first vote for president was for ronald reagan and thought that was going to be the best president until donald j. trump came along. i have watched my entire plant after plant and after plant in the metro detroit area close. there are plants sitting idle

and underutilized and donald trump's policies are going to bring product back. there are going to be new investments, new plants built and the u.a.w. members and i brought 220 of them with me and they are sitting over here, we support donald trump's policy on tariffs 100%. mr. president, we can't think you enough and in six months or a year, i can't wait to see what's happening three, four years down the road. thank you, mr. president. president trump: he got it right from the beginning and got it before anybody else. this group over here, they got it, too. we won the state of michigan and won almost all of them but won michigan by a lot and thank you all. the auto workers are fantastic. the teamsters are fantastic. thank you very much, i

appreciate it. you are going to be happy very soon and you are seeing what's happening not only with car companies but car companies in particular. all of the ones that are moving and announcing day in, day out, nobody has seen anything like that. with today's actions we are standing up for our great farmers and ranchers brutalized by nations all over the world. [applause] canada imposes a 300% tariff on our dairy products. they do the first can of milk and first little carton of milk is a low price and then it gets up to 275%, 300% and they say 2%, 3% but look at what happens down the road when you look a little bit, it's not a pretty picture. we don't like it.

it's not fair to our farmers and our country. and countries like canada, we subsidize a lot of countries and keep them going and keep them in business. in the case of mexico, it's $300 billion a year and in the case of canada, $200 billion a year. at what point do we say you have to work for yourselves and this is why we have the big deficits and why we have that amount of debt that has been placed on our heads over the last number of years. and we are not taking it anymore. through nontariff barriers the european union bans imports of most american poultry. they say we want to send you our cars but we are not going to take anything you have. australia bans and they are wonderful people, but they ban american beef and we imported $3

billion of australian beef from them last year alone. they won't take any of our beef. they don't want it because they don't want to affect their farmers. i don't blame them. at midnight tonight, i would say. [applause] and china charges american rice farmers and overquota, tariff rate of 65%. south korea charges -- from 50% to 513%. and japan, our friend charges us 700% because they don't want us selling rice. who can blame them. great job on eggs, by the way. they came down 50%. once we got involved, they were going through the sky. the egg prices were going through the sky and you did a fantastic job. and lots of eggs and down 59%

and going down further. and we charge 2.8% for so many things that other countries are charging 200%, 300% and 400% and imposing tariffs and protective barriers made nations poorer every country on earth would be eliminating these policies and china would be the first in line. they run a very strong country but they are not first in line and the american people are paying a very big price. from 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation and the united states was proportionately the wealthiest the it has ever been. in the 1880's, they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collected. we were collecting money so much so fast they didn't know what to

do with it. isn't that a good problem to have. marco, isn't that a good problem. they collected so much money, they actually formed a commission to determine what they were going to do with the money, who they were going to give it to and how much. in 1913 for reasons unknown they accomplished the income tax that citizens rather than foreign nations would pay the money necessary. then in 1929, it all came to an abrupt end with the great depression and would have never happened if they stayed with the tariff policy. it would have been a much different story. they would have brought back tariffs. but it was gone. it was gn. nothing could have been done. took years and years to get out of the depression far honker than f.d.r. had that office over

there. the ramp system, it was built because of him and every time you walked up and he did a great job but it lasted long beyond his terms as you know. but it's not too late any longer. and we are going to start being smart and start being wealthy again and wealthy as a country because they have taken so much of our wealth away from us and we are not going to let that happen. we could be so much wealthier than any country. but we are getting smart. nearly a century later in the face of unrelenting warfare the united states can no longer continue with unilateral economic surrender and pay the deficits of canada and mexico. we used to do it and can't do it anymore. we pay for their military and pay for everything they have to pay and when you want to cut back they get upset.

but we have to take care of our people and take care of our people first and i'm sorry to say that. [applause] and today, we are standing up for the american worker and we are finally putting america first. [applause] in sleepy joe biden's last year in office, the united states hemorrhaged 100,000 manufacturing jobs and the number was going through the effort at levels never seen before and our trade deficit reached a record $1.2 trillion. since the beginning of nafta, the worst trade deal. it was a horror show. they said you will never be able to get it out. we had to get approval from congress. we had to live with that deal. it was the worst trade deal by

far. our country lost 90,000 factories. think about putting a map up and -- you wouldn't have enough room. 90,000. we had to check four different times and it was actually higher than that and five million manufacturing jobs were lost while wracking up trade deficits of 19 trillion. that was the worst trade deal ever made. as a result of these gigantic losses, foreign nations own more of american assets -- think of this, than the americans own of their own foreign assets or other foreign assets. the united states can no longer produce enough drugs to treat our sick. we have a tremendous problem. we have to go to foreign countries to treat our sick. we import virtually all of our

computers, phones, televisions and electronics. we used to dominate the field and now import it all. a single shipyard produces more ships every year than all of the american shipyards combined. think of that. and it was a business we used to dominate. we used to dominate totally. trade deficits are no longer an economic problem but a national emergency that threatens our security. it's a he very great threat. and starting tomorrow, the united states will implement reciprocal tariffs on other nations. it's been a long time since we even thought of that. we used to think about it a lot. we didn't think about it for many decades. the nations that treat us badly we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, nonmonetary barriers and all

forms of cheating and because we are very kind -- we are very kind, very kind, you are not so kind when you get ripped like my auto worker friends and team steer friends and all the unions that voted democrat they are not voting democrat whether worker or nonworker, they are for the republicans thousand. but we will charge them approximately half of what they have been charging us. the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. i could have done that, yes, but it would have been tough for a lot of countries. and i would like to see the chart. could you bring it up, howard. great secretary of commerce. so if you look at that, china, first row, china, 67%.

that's tariffs charged to the u.s.a., including currency manipulation and trade barriers. 67%, i think you can for the most part. those with good eyes -- it's very windy and didn't want to bring out the big charts. had no chance of standing. we came off with a smaller chart. 67% that we are going to be charging 34%. they charge us and we charge them. they will be upset because we never charge anybody anything. now we're going to charge. european union, they are very tough, very tough traders. you think of european union very friendly. they rip us off. so sad to see, 39%. we are going to charge them 20%. vietnam, great negotiators,

great people, they like me, i like them but they charge us 90% and charge them 46% tariff. taiwan where they took all of our computer chips and semiconductors. we used to be the king. we had all of it and almost none of it except the biggest company is coming in. lee zeldin is working to get their appraisals. amazing companies, mr. wei they are coming in from taiwan and build one of the biggest plants in the world. 64%, we are going to charge them 32%. japan, great people, and again, i don't blame the people for doing it, i blame the people that sat in that oval office right behind the resolute desk or whichever desk they chose.

they would charge 46% and much higher like cars. 46%, we are charging them 24%. india, very, very tough. prime minister just left and he is a great friend of mine. i said you are a friend of mine but you are not treating us right. we charged them almost nothing for years and years and decades and it was -- seven years ago when i came in. we took hundreds of millions of dollars from china in tariffs. and they understood. president xi said i understand. and they all understand we have to go through little tough love, maybe. but they all understand. they are ripping us off. and prime minister of japan

shinzo, fantastic man and taken from us, assassination and i said, we have to do something, trade is not fair. he said i know that. i know that. and he was a great gentleman. he was a fantastic man. but he understood immediately what i was talking about. he said we have to do something and he said i know that. it would have been a much better deal but there were many years left on the deals, but it was something. if you look at switzerland. indonesia, malaysia, cambodia, 97%. we are going to bring it down to 49%. they made a fortune. united kingdom, 10% and we'll do the same thing. south africa. 60%, 30%.

and they have bad things going on in south africa. we are paying them billions of dollars and cut the funding because bad things. fake news ought to be looking at it but they don't want to report. brazil, 10%, 10%. bangladesh, 74%. pakistan, 58%. sri lanka, 88%. what we are doing is we are taking -- we could take -- he is doing a very good job. how's he doing? you better take it with you. going to follow you down with the wind. i brought a hat. would anybody like a hat? i'm not giving it to the cabinet but the auto workers. thank you, fellows.

that's it. that's it. they deserve it more than our cabinet. our cabinet has plenty of hats. you see the numbers. the numbers are so disproportionate and so unfair. at the same time we will establish a minimum baseline tariff of 10%. you notice that on the chart. and that will be on other countries to help rebuild our economy and prevent cheating and have a minimum of cheating and very severe on the people at the gate that watch the tariffs and watch the product coming in because there have been a lot of bad things happen at the gate because the money is so enormous. probably nothing like it in terms of the enormityity and a lot of bad things with people that do the check-in. if they cheat, the repercussions are going to be extremely

strong. foreign nations will be asked to pay for the privilege of access to our market, the biggest market in the world. well right now, the biggest market in the world, we had a great country four years ago. we were doubling up on china. we were doing so well, but so much slipped away under biden. i campaigned on this policy throughout last year and today that promise was paid and also a promise that was kept. promises made, promises kept. [applause] to my company that objects to our commonsense reciprocal tariffs, back and forth, back and forth and i call this kind reciprocal, but what we do is we cut it in half -- my answer is very simple. they complain, you want your

tariff rate to be zero you build your product here in america. there is no tariff if you build your product or plant in america. and we have seen companies coming in like we have never seen before. likewise to all the foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, a.m. pass doris who will be calling to ask for exemptions from these tariffs and i say terminate your own tariffs, drop your barriers, don't plan plate their currencies and nobody can believe, which is a bad, bad thing and very devastating to us and start buying billions of dollars of american goods. tariffs give us protection against those who would do us economic harm and people are looking to us. maybe not so obviously but doing tremendous economic harm.

but they will give us growth like you haven't seen before. and it will be something very special to watch. i am so looking forward. and brian, it's going to happen faster than you said. but it's already started. it's already started. work has begun in plants all around the country and you have seen that before and these are big rich companies. $61 billion started on a big plant going up and will be announced offer the next two disand started work. many of these biggest companies in the world, they have committed to build, build, build. we are going to build, build, build. siran they came here to see me. and i said i'm pretty busy to stop russia and ukraine and middle east we have to stop that. and stop the houthis -- they like shooting ships down out of the water. they get a kick out of it but

not getting a kick out of it now, are they, mr. secretary? but here is a short list of the companies that have announced and committed to investment. and this is a company that built its factories and plants in china, apple is going to spend $500 billion. they never spent money like that here and build their plants here. softbank opened ai and oracle and investing $500 billion. nav inch dia. tsmc, the biggest most important company of chips from taiwan is investing $200 billion and said the reason number one was the election of november 5 and number two the tariffs.

they don't want to pay the tariffs. so we are going from almost no percentage -- we used to have 100% of the chip market and most of it is in taiwan. and think of it. we had 100%. we lost it because of people in that office that didn't do their job and allowed it to be stolen from us. johns on and i don't know, siron. eli lilly. meta is investing $500on. the mack is investing. 20 billion and merck and general motors, g.e.o., space honda, hyundai are putting billions of dollars and committed to 100%. and we have never had -- and

this is after 2 1/2 months. this is just -- this all took place as soon as we came out with what everybody wanted to do. watched a gentleman today on television, used to work with lee iacocca. they can't people in terms of what we are doing. tell me, what do you think trump is doing from the automobile standpoint. he said, i can't believe it -- he is an older guy, really top guy, he said i never thought i would see the day when this would happen and someone had the courage to do what has to be done. this is transforming our entire nation going to be transformed not only with the cars but every single other item that's built and become an industrial

powerhouse and he said that so beautiful today. i'm going to get the tape and bruce, get that tape and send it out to you on long island and play it for your people and union workers and nonunion workers out there. you have a plenty even split. but we have so far and have about $6 trillion of investments and you wouldn't do that in years in this country over the last number of years, $6 trillion and much higher by the end of the year and think about what $6 trillion, you wouldn't even have a small percentage of that under this other system. we are going to an entirely different county and going to be fantastic for the workers. never will have a transformation like the transformation that is already happening. it is incredible to watch and meet with the top people, very

wealthy people or people that are great managers and executives and presidents of big public companies and watch the enthusiasm they have now. they gave up on our country and went to foreign countries. companies are pouring in our country with jobs and money to follow and it's beautiful. in the coming days there will be complaints from the special interests and fake news. the fake news will always complain but never forget, every prediction our opponents paid about trade for the last 30 years has been proven totally wrong. they were wrong about nafta, they were wrong about china, the trans-pacific partnership. if i didn't terminate that, united auto workers, you would have had no jobs in this country. you would have had no jobs.

it was all going to other countries. in my first term they said tariffs would crash the economy. instead we built the greatest economy in the history of the world. i have great respect for president xi and great respect for china but were taking tremendous advantage of us and i commend them for that. i said if you can get away with it, that's ok. but they understand exactly what's happening and some of them are saying it's about time and they are going to fight and everyone's going to fight. i say to the leaders, you have to take care of your country but we have to start taking care of our country. from the day of my election, the stock market went up in my first term 88% with nasdaq going up 155%, more than any president has ever had in any term in office by far.

[applause] and i think we are going to blow that away and maybe the numbers won't show but i think they are going to show much better than those numbers but you are going to see factories that are falling down, those factories will be knocked down and new factories built in their place. not only rerch vaccinating, but -- renovating but the best in the world. he said we have to go to mexico. i said i want to see it in the united states. he said we are not building them. during the campaign he said, we are not building, you have to go to mexico. when i decided to run and went to the number one in the polls very rapidly, i have to say, i would like to say in the first hour and looked like i was going to win and the fake news is

saying don't do this. if i didn't win they would have been in trouble because nobody wants to read them any way. when it looked like i was going to win i announced i was going to do what we are doing. great consistency because i have been talking about it for 40 years. if you look at my old speeches when i was young, very handsome, my old speeches and people would be on the television show and being ripped off by these counties. the only thing that changed was the countries but nothing really changes. that's why it is such an honor to be able to do this. if you look at china, i took in hundreds of billions of dollars in my term, hundreds of billions. they never paid 10 cents to any other president and so much so

that biden couldn't do anything and wanted to try and terminate it because he had a special relationship with china. you know what the relationship was? but the numbers were so big, the numbers were so big that they couldn't do it. so they eased it and did things they shouldn't have done and made it comfortable for them and couldn't do it because it was hundreds of billions of dollars and i did that and we were on our way of doing something incredible. and we had a very bad election. a lot of bad things happened. when i said we have. made it too big to rig and we won in records and it was a monumental win and such an honor to see so many of you like brian and your friends to celebrate and more importantly celebrate what we are doing.

this will be an entirely different country in a short period of time. it will be something the whole world will be talking about. the critics made the very tired predictions earlier this year but in february, core inflation dropped to the lowest in four years and the price of eggs, in a month and a half, we were there for four weeks and first week i got blamed for eggs. at the they have said eggs have gone up 250% and can't get eggs and they were going crazy. and i said i just got here and then we got to work on eggs and got to work on everything. and our great secretary of agriculture, you did a fantastic job. she did a fantastic job. as i said before, the price of eggs have dropped 59% and going down more and the availability

is fantastic. they were saying for easter, could you use plastic eggs? i don't want to do. thank you very much. but likewise an old fashioned term, i used them on the campaign. groceries, a bag with different things in it. groceries went through the roof and i campaigned on that and i talked about groceries a lot. and energy costs are down, gasoline is way under $3 and people are buying things and live again. we created 10,000 new manufacturing jobs and it was -- that took place in one month, newspapers they haven't seen in a long time, no inflation under my term. we virtually had no inflation for four years but after trainingsing over to sleepy joe it went to nonexistent to the

highest in our country. the highest inflation in the history of our country brought up by energy, bad policy. a lot of bad things happen. how about allowing millions of people to pour into our country with open borders and sad to see even now. and i see our great secretary -- stand up, please. kristi. and home homan. these people are doing a great job. but getting them out in records and we have problems with judges. they want the gang and ms-13, the most vicious gangs and nobody has seen anything like it. killer gangs and we put them out and radical left judges -- they don't want them to go out.

let's bring them back. you have done a fantastic job. thank everybody. homeland security. appreciate it. [applause] and we now have a border that's the best border that we have ever had, even better than it was my first term. this we did really well. and best, safest border and best border there ever was and matched it and done even better and going to get it down the right way and we want people to come into our country but through a legal process. we need more people. we need people to run these plants and help the auto workers, teamsters and nonunion people, the farmers and let people come in. but we want them to come in legally and have the capability

of loving our country. and now we are going to pass the largest tax cuts in american history. and that's why we are relying on pike and john thune and not cut social security, medicare or medicaid been tits and the democrats will because if they got in, the entire economy would collapse. this economy was going to collapse. they were horrible. people -- i had my highest approval ratings because they are comparing me to the worst administration in the history of our country. i appreciate that at least. but speaker of the house mike johnson and senate majority leader john thune have been fantastic, by the way. but they have been working tirelessly on taking the next step to pass the plan for our one big beautiful bill.

i would like to name it, if you can. i made that statement six months ago and they call it one big beautiful bill. it will have the big tax cuts and every incentive there is and it will be fantastic. for the cars, we are asking for an interest deduction, not a loan. if the car is not built in america, you don't get the interest rate deduction. but if you build the car in america, if it's built in america, then you get an interest rate deduction, tax deduction and that's a big thing. i think that's going to pay tore itself. never happened. we never had anything like that. someone said where did you get the idea? you would think it happened a long time ago. i'm very happen it didn't happen because i can say it's my idea. we are going to get us closer to

the debt extension and i know you are going to be able to do that, mike. and it's important you do that and all of the other things that the senate budget plan -- because john and mike are working together and the two bills are going very well and get our shared priorities done including certain permanent tax cuts. spending cuts, energy and defense and border. we are covering everything. these will be phenomenal. no one bill is going to straighten our country and we said let's do it and get it done and some guys will love it and some guys will like it a little bit less because they aren't getting what they were looking for. if we get this done, it will be the most incredible bill ever passed in the history of our could congress and senate and congressmen, many of whom today

will be very proud of themselves. i believe that and will set us on a whole new prosperous path. we are going to cut spending and ria size the budget back to where it should be. [applause] thank you, rick. look at all of our senators over there. oh, boy. that's a nice group of people. but i won't like them so much if they don't get this bill done. that's a great group. tremendous people. the senate plan is my complete and total support and the house plan likewise is very similar and moving along at the same clip and as soon as you are ready, you'll show it to me. every republican congressman and senator must union if i. we can't be separated. we have to get it done and get absolutely everything we can and take care of the american

people. that's what matters. take care of the american people. get it done. from this day on we aren't going to let anyone that american workers can't have the future they deserve. we are going to produce the cars, chips, minerals and medicines that we need right here in america. the pharmaceutical companies are going to come roaring back. they are all coming back to our country. if they don't, they will have a big tax to pay. you are going to be very happy and very safe. we are going to build our future with american hands, with american heart, with american steel and build it with american pride. we are approaching our 100th day as president and been given credit by a lot of people actually, even some of the fake

news, can you believe it, which in this case isn't fake, for having done more in that time than any other administration in the history of our country. we have had amazing in terms what we have done and accomplished and see if we can get that war ended and another war from not starting in the middle east. they are losing 2, 500 people a day, young people, soldiers, russian. 22, 500 through some days. but on average probably over about a one-week period, 1, 712 they say. they are losing their soldiers. they are dying and being decimated and not from our country but from other countries but they are human beings, russia, ukraine and we are going to get it stopped.

a senseless war that would have never happened if i wasn't and shouldn't be allowed to go on. [applause] i think with being given good cooperation by ukraine and russia. we have to get it stopped. it's humanity. it's a terrible thing. this will be a big moment. i think you are going to remember today. free nation we are dealing with. we are going to have a free and beautiful nation. it's going to be liberation day in america and hopefully you are going to look back and say he is right. this is going to be one of the most important days in the history of our country. god bless you and god bless america. thank you very much. thank you very much. [applause]

>> we have two documents prepared for the president's signature. one is closing the loophole and the second is -- [indiscernible] [applause] the reciprocal tariffs executive order that the president spoke about. this is obviously a huge deal and it is an honor. [applause]

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[applause] >> mr. president what do you think about american families paying more? ♪

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